420 ([return])
[ A Persian would say, "I am a Irání but Walláhi indeed I am not lying.">[
421 ([return])
[ (This sentence of wholesale extermination passed upon womankind, reminds me of the Persian lines which I find quoted in 'Abdu 'l-Jalíl's History of the Barmecides:
Agar nek búdí Zan u Ráy-i-Zan
Zan-rá Ma-zan Nám búdí, na Zan,
nd which I would render Anglicè:
If good there were in Woman and her way
Her name would signify "Slay not," not "Slay."
"Zan" as noun = woman; as imp. of "zadan" = strike, kill, whose negative is "mazan."—ST.)]
422 ([return])
[ In the text the Shaykh, to whom "Amán" was promised, is also gelded, probably by the neglect of the scribe.]